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Comedian and co-host of the Star Talk radio podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson. His TED Talk focuses on the funnier side of technology and how it should work for us, but explores what happens when it doesn’t. Covered in the talk are topics like social media, AI, driverless cars, robots and more....

Recently Elon Musk sat down with Chris Anderson to discuss his newest ambitious project digging tunnels under Los Angeles, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX as he continues his endevour to transition the human race to a multiplanitary species, taking us to Mars. This is the talk where Musk...

Drones, flying robots, whatever you call them, drones are here and about to get a whole lot smarter. During a TED Talk in Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team have created autonomous aerial robots inspired by honeybees. These make some very interesting assumptions that dramatically differ from the consumer...

TEDx is an independently organised branch of the awesome TED.com. Today’ TEDx is being held in Sydney and if you can’t be there in person, you can watch the live stream, for free. If your someone who loves to learn, loves to be inspired by other’s stories, then this...

Watching TED Talks can be one of the most inspiring and entertaining ways to spend your down time. Now with more than 1600 talks, TED are releasing the 20 most watched presentations of all time. The short, succinct talks are packed full of amazing facts by people who lead...

They’re millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down — what’s not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math. Australia’s own,...

During a Formula 1 race, a car sends hundreds of millions of data points to its garage for real-time analysis and feedback. So why not use this detailed and rigorous data system elsewhere, like … at children’s hospitals? Peter Van Manen tells us more. In a Formula 1 car,...

Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data — and from this gappy information, countries would make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change...

Jinha Lee is a Microsoft Researcher who’s talk on reaching into the computer is pretty stunning. He talks of the the border between our physical world and the digital one getting thinner and thinner, in the case of touchscreens down to a millimeter. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants...

We’re doing something new here at techAU and that’s featuring a different TED Talk each Tuesday. For years I’ve been inspired by these talks from stunning individuals across the globe. Take a few minutes out of your day to move past the political disasters or the sitcom reruns and...

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